R. Festa, A. Aliseda, J. Peijnenburg

Introduction

T.A.F. Kuipers

The Threefold Evaluation of Theories: A Synopsis of From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism. On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation (2000)

CONFIRMATION AND THE HD METHOD

P. Maher

Qualitative Confirmation and the Ravens Paradox

J.R. Welch

Gruesome Predicates

A. Aliseda

Lacunae, Empirical Progress and Semantic Tableaux

EMPIRICAL PROGRESS BY ABDUCTION AND INDUCTION

J. Meheus

Empirical Progress and Ampliative Adaptive Logics

D. Batens

On a Logic of Induction

G. Schurz

Bayesian H-D Confirmation and Structuralistic Truthlikeness: Discussion and Comparison with the Relevant-Element and the Content-Part Approach

TRUTH APPROXIMATION BY ABDUCTION

I. Niiniluoto

Abduction and Truthlikeness

I. Douven

Empirical Equivalence, Explanatory Force, and the Inference to the Best Theory

TRUTH APPROXIMATION BY EMPIRICAL AND NONEMPIRICAL MEANS

B. Hamminga

Constructive Realism and Scientific Progress

D. Miller

Beauty, a Road to the Truth?

J.P. Zamora Bonilla

Truthlikeness with a Human Face: On Some Connections between the Theory of Verisimilitude and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

TRUTHLIKENESS AND UPDATING

S.D. Zwart

Updating Theories

J. Van Benthem

A Note on Modeling Theories

REFINED TRUTH APPROXIMATION

T. Mormann

Geometry of Logic and Truth Approximation

I.C. Burger, J. Heidema

For Better, for Worse: Comparative Orderings on States and Theories

REALISM AND METAPHORS

J.J.A. Mooij

Metaphor and Metaphysical Realism

R. Festa

On the Relations between (Neo-Classical) Philosophy of Science and Logic